"What Makes Me Tick"
Lecture
By: Philip Johnson
Date: 1975
Source: Johnson, Philip. Philip Cortelyou Johnson: Writings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979, 261–265.
About the Author: Philip Johnson (1906–) was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating from Harvard, he met the modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who profoundly influenced him. He would go on to set down the principles of modern art, along with architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock, in the book The International Style: Architecture Since 1922. In 1941 Johnson designed a house for himself in New Canaan, Connecticut, now known simply as the Glass House; it is considered one of the finest examples of modernist architecture. In later years Johnson worked in postmodern as well as modernist approaches.
Introduction
Johnson's early works, such as the Glass House, the Four Seasons...
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